The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-03-03
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THE Maine Legislature has adopted East
tern standard time for the State.
II was rerorted in Nashville, Tenn. that
the Nashville & Chattanooga railroad had
been sold TO the Richmond & Danville.
a CYCLONE passed near Orville, Cal, re-
Gently and for a distance OF six niles car
ried every thing before ii, it,destroying fences
and cabins The breadth was about forty
feet. 1t is the first ever reported west of
the Rocky mountains
THE President has approved the act for
the construction Of bridge over the Mis-
sissippi river near Dubuque, Iowa
The Vermont Railroad Commissioners
have found that no one was really to blame
for the White River junction horror.
AT BellefonJe, near Altoona, Pa, re-
Gently, a gang of bricklayers employed by
the firm Of Wintering & Dixon, of Pitts
burgh, were engaged in lining the
stacks at Valentines furnaces,
when the scaffolding on which
they stood gave way, precipitating
distance of sixtv-five feet. Five men were
killed and two others fatally injured.
TERRIBLE and disastrous earthquake
shocks occurred in the southeastern part
of France and the northwestern part Of
near Diano Marino, 800 lives were lost. At
Noli, near Genoa, fifteen lives were lost,
and at Oneglia six were killed. Scores
were also reported killed at Diano Marino.
The number of injured run into the thou
sands The shocks were felt at Nice, Tou-
Ion, Marseilles. Genoa, Cannes, Turin,
Milan and as far as Geneva. The damage
to property was incalculable.
TIE Iowa Supreme Court has granted an
injunction against the International Distil-
lery. restraining it from manufacturing al
coholic liquors except for mechanical, me
dicinal and sacramento purposes. 1t is the
only distillery III the State.
THE Pennsylvania Board of Pardons has
granted reheariug in the case of Milton
Weston, the Chicago capitalist, now under
going Imprisonment in the Riverside peni-
tentiary for completely in the Murraysville
gas well riots.
HENRY e. DoDsoN, convicted in Augusta,
KY, of vagrancy, has been ordered sold for
seventy-fve Gays TO the highest bidder.
THE British steamship Weatheral has
been sunk in collision with bark and one
of the crew has been lost.
a BOMB was thrown into Worth street,
Boston, recently, and exploded with great
noise but no damage.
THE prisoners at Bolton, Tex, locked the
jailer in cell and all escaped. They car
ried the KEYS with them.
DISPATCHES from Rome of the 18th stated
that the victims of the recent earthquake
numbered thousands. In the Genoese
Riviera two thousand were reported killed,
three hundred being killed in church,
whittier they went after the first shock.
The second shock appeared to be the most
fatal.
The river bank at Leota, Miss, COM
menced cavIng in recently, carrying away
two or three buildings. ApprehenslOns
were felt that the whole town would go.
IT is reported that three officers impii
Gated in the recently discovered military
pot have been hanged at st. Petersburg.
The Russian Government has strictly en-
joined official secrecy respecting the con-
spiracy.
THE New York Supreme Court has de-
cided in favor of the Stock Exchange in re-
gard to interfering with ticker privileges
ANOTHER trunk containing mutilated
human remains, has been found at the Bal
timore & Ohio depot, at Pittsburgh, Pa.
THREE men and two women, "holiness
evangelists," recently preaching in Colum-
bla. S. c., provoked the cnmity of the
CdJnOllC pOpildllpu a ulOD OEUereu lueIl
to quit the place. and on their refusing
halters were placed around their neeks and
they were dragged out and kicked until
they were nearly killed.
THE Industrial Gazette, of St. Louis, makes
the announcement that there has just been
uncovered, near Tuscaloosa, Ala. bed OF
red hematlte iron ore sixteen feet thick.
which analyses G2l3 per cent. of metallic
iron, and is believed to be the most cXteu-
sive and valuable deposit of the kind in the
United States.
TIE will of George Hutchins, of Ancora,
" j.. bcqucathing $4,000 to Henry George
for the dissemination of literature on social
liberty. has been admitted to probate.
TIE New York Railroad Commissioners
have recommended the passage of bill to
insure safety in lighting and heating cars.
WILLIAM Busch, the murderer who
escaped from the Ridgeway (Pa.) jail has
been captured.
AN alternative scheme for gradually
abolishing the importation Of iron into Rus
sia has been submitted. The Imperial
Council proposes either to gradually pro
hibit imports of iron or gradually increase
the duties until they become prohibitory.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barbour Drum, aged about
fifty, were burned to death in their dwell
ing IN the town of Big Flats, n. Y, the
other morning. They were alone in the
house and no one knows how the fire
started.